Author: La Bua, Giuseppe
Title: Homo novus and nobilis: Cicero and the formation of the ‘modern’ aristocracy
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 103-118
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Giuseppe La Bua demonstrates that Cicero’s persona as a new man played a key role in the formation of a modern ideology of nobility. Starting from a fresh reading of Velleius Paterculus (2.128.1–4) and Juvenal’s praise of Cicero as the ‘true’ nobilis in Satire 8, it argues that the status of Cicero as ‘new man’ and ‘new nobilis’, a model of political man acting for the conservation of the res publica by virtus and ingenium, impacted on later reflections on human dignity and nobility throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Italian Renaissance. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xvi]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-008/pdf
Author initials: La Bua 2022
Title: Homo novus and nobilis: Cicero and the formation of the ‘modern’ aristocracy
Review/Collection: In : Berno, Francesca Romana & La Bua, Giuseppe [Edd.], Portraying Cicero in Literature, Culture, and Politics. From Ancient to Modern Times, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2022, 483 p. [Berno & La Bua 2022]
Place edition: Berlin
Editor: De Gruyter
Year edition: 2022
Pages: 103-118
Keywords: Biographie - Biografia - Biography, Héritage - Fortuna - Legacy
Description: Giuseppe La Bua demonstrates that Cicero’s persona as a new man played a key role in the formation of a modern ideology of nobility. Starting from a fresh reading of Velleius Paterculus (2.128.1–4) and Juvenal’s praise of Cicero as the ‘true’ nobilis in Satire 8, it argues that the status of Cicero as ‘new man’ and ‘new nobilis’, a model of political man acting for the conservation of the res publica by virtus and ingenium, impacted on later reflections on human dignity and nobility throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Italian Renaissance. [Berno & La Bua 2022, xvi]
Link: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110748703-008/pdf
Author initials: La Bua 2022
